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Perspective

Oct. 22, 2009

Summary Judgment Reconsidered

Kurt Schlichter of Schlichter & Shonack looks at Nazir v. United Airlines, Inc.'s take on the summary judgment motion process.

CIVIL PROCEDURE

By Kurt Schlichter

The 1st District Court of Appeal's ruling in Nazir v. United Airlines, Inc. et al. (2009 LEXIS 1659, Oct. 9th) highlighted many of the problems with summary judgment motion processes that civil litigation practitioners and the trial courts are only too well aware. The long opinion spares no one - not the defense, not plaintiff's counsel and not even the trial court - with a searing critique at ...

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